Engineering Crossword Puzzle

November 25, 2012

2012 Crosswords Archive

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Engineering Crossword Puzzle for November 25, 2012 - RF Cafe

ACROSS DOWN
2. 1E3 bits per second

6. Closed current paths

12. 1e-6 mA

14. Units of resistance

16. U.S. Spectrum allocation agency

17. System for guiding aircraft (abbr.)

18. Attenuator configuration (hyph.)

21. Filter type that blocks upper frequencies (abbr.)

22. They go on reels for mass production

23. Early predecessor to an online forum (abbr.)

25. Network department (abbr.)

26. A gaseous process that deposits insulating films or metal onto a wafer at elevated temperature (abbr.)

27. Stock symbol for National Semiconductor

29. Things in a bill of material

31. Chemical symbol for zirconium

34. Input intercept point (abbr.)

35. Nuclear explosion byproduct harmful to electronic (abbr., pl.)

36. Electronics Industry Association (abbr.)

38. Geometric solid having two ends which are similar, equal, and parallel rectilinear figures, and sides which are parallelograms

40. Equipment

41. Join two or more wires (pl.)

43. Administered

46. Part of a male connector (pl.)

47. Nearest and furthest points to the center of gravitational attraction for a body in orbit (pl.)

49. Family of ICs with a certain component density level (abbr.)

50. Encased in a protective covering

51. Programmable logic device (abbr.)

53. Chemical symbol for strontium

54. The stuff in the solder core

56. Software drafting tool (abbr.)

58. Direct Memory Access (abbr.)

59. Time delay (abbr.)

60. Automated Test Equipment (abbr.)

61. Current summing point (pl.)

63. Multifunctional silicon devices (abbr.)

65. On an even plane

66. Antenna (abbr.)

67. Line of Sight (abbr.)

69. Recovers the modulation from the RF signal

71. Chemical symbol for polonium

72. 2 or more of these are required for matrix algebra

73. Total Access Communication System (abbr.)

1. Determines cause and effect

3. Chemical symbol for berkelium

4. Attenuator configuration (hyph.)

5. Describes when a synchronous motor loses phase lock

6. Enclosure for electronics system or assembly

7. Intermodulation distortion (abbr.)

8. Type of flip-flop

9. Unit of capacitance (abbr.)

10. Current-voltage phase mnemonic

11. Coefficient of temperature (abbr.)

13. Test document for verifying proper function (abbr.)

15. Circuit path with very high or infinite impedance

19. Antenna gain unit (abbr.)

20. Type of spread spectrum that does not use frequency hopping (abbr.)

22. Television Interference (abbr.)

24. Alloy of iron and low percentages of carbon, manganese, chromium, etc.

25. Apply (as a voltage)

28. Moon of Saturn discovered in 1789

30. Computer messaging service

32. Like the inband portion of a Chebyshev filter

33. The design component of total product cost (abbr.)

37. Consequence of under sampling

38. Cellphone band above DCS

39. First name of a British scientist of falling apple fame

40. World's first satellite navigation system, abbr.

42. International phonetic alphabet letter "I"

44. Type of chart

45. Element in front of the driven element in a Yagi or Quad antenna

48. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto

50. Computer monitor (abbr., pl.)

52. Common average used for sinewaves (abbr.)

55. Negative temperature coefficient (abbr.)

57. ____tail, a type of strong wood joint

58. International phonetic alphabet letter "D"

62. Digital Enhanced Cordless Telephone

63. Indium phosphide

64. Sample group

65. Mr. de Forest's first name

67. Chemical symbol for lanthanum

68. Chemical symbol for strontium

69. Type of current

70. Chemical symbol for scandium


See solution below

Engineering Crossword Puzzle Solution for November 25, 2012 - RF Cafe